Drain Soul

Drain Soul
Drain Soul Level 24 Affliction warlock ability 40 yd range 1.5% of base mana Channeled Drains the target's soul, causing (83.6% of Spell power) Shadow damage over 4 sec. If the target dies and yields experience or honor, one Soul Shard is energized. When Drain Soul deals damage, it causes all of your other damage over time spells on the target to instantly deal 40% of their normal damage.
Properties
Class	Warlock
School	Shadow
Cooldown	None/Global Cooldown
Other information
Level learned	24
Related debuff
Drain Soul Deals (20.9% of Spell power) Shadow damage every 1 sec and causes all of the Warlock's other damage over time spells to instantly deal 40% of their normal damage. Duration: 4 seconds

[[Category:warlock abilities]][[Category:warlock abilities]]

"Give yourself to me."

—Mistress Nesala

Drain Soul is a channeled Affliction warlock spell that steals the soul from the enemy, dealing damage and restoring [Soul Shards].

Improvements

• 

  • Grimoire of Sacrifice
  • Affliction warlock ability
  • 30 sec cooldown
  • Instant
  • Sacrifices your demon pet for power, gaining its command demon ability, and causing your spells to sometimes also deal (37.1875% of Spell power) additional Shadow damage.
    
    Lasts until canceled or until you summon a demon pet.
• 

  • Improved Drain Soul
  • Affliction warlock ability
  • Passive
  • Your Drain Soul deals 100% additional damage on targets below 20% health.
• 

  • Glyph of Soul Consumption
  • Major Glyph
  • Affliction
    Your Drain Soul restores 15% of your total health after you kill a target that yields experience or honor.
    
    Demonology
    You restore 15% of your total health after you kill a target in Demon Form that yields experience or honor.
    
    Destruction
    You restore 15% of your total health after you kill a target with Chaos Bolt that yields experience or honor.
  • Instant cast
  • Requires Level 25

Tips and tactics

• Drain Soul cannot be reflected.

Patch changes

• Patch 6.0.2 (2014-10-14): Merged with [Malefic Grasp].
  
• Patch 5.4.0 (2013-09-10): No longer energizes Soul Shards from the pets and guardians of players, and now deals 34% less damage. If other periodic Affliction damage effects are triggered by Drain Soul, they now deal 60% of their normal damage (down from 100%).
  
• Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): Now an Affliction specialization ability. Duration reduced from 15 to 12 sec, and causes double damage below 20% health instead of 25%. Now also causes all other periodic Affliction damage effects to instantly deal 100% of their normal periodic damage when the target is below 20% health.
  
• Patch 4.0.3a (2010-11-23): Damage has been reduced by approximately 12%.
  
• Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): This spell now refreshes 3 soul shards.
  
• Patch 3.3.0 (2009-12-08): This spell now deals 4 times the normal damage for all ranks. Previously it was only ranks 6 and above.
  
• Patch 3.1.0 (2009-04-14): Each time Drain Soul deals damage to a target which can grant experience, it now has a chance to generate a Soul Shard.
  
• Patch 3.0.2 (2008-10-14):
  • Will now cause four times the damage if the target is at or below 25% health.
  • Visual spell effect changed. Undocumented.
    
• Patch 2.4.2 (2008-05-13): Channeling of this spell will now always stop when a player target dies.
  
• Patch 1.5.0 (2005-06-07): Honorable kills will now generate a Soul Shard when Drain Soul is used.
  

External links

• Wowhead
• WoWDB